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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Enable FIPS mode support to IBM Native PGP

My companies security and compliance required FIPS enabled for payload encryption for specific data classifications and exchanging data with specific US government entities. My company wanted to leverage IBM Native PGP instead of a 3rd party exter...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Add appl.id & policy.id PasswordExit parameters to Functional Authorities

Currently Password Exit feature for Connect Direct for Windows allows to specify "passwrod.exit.appl.id" & "password.exit.policy.id" only in the "Initparms" section. The aim is to add more granularity to the configuration and provide an option...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Carrier Integration without Manifest

Carrier integration is needed to generate tracking number and print shipping label. API getTrackingNoAndPrintLabel is used to get tracking number and print label. This API adds ManifestKey and ManifestNo to YFS_SHIPMENT table. This necessitates us...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Delivered

Claim level reject enhancement

Currently with claim level rejection if there are duplicate CLM01 values, claim level rejection is not possible. We would like the recommend an enhancement to check the entire CLM segment for duplication which may eliminate the duplication of the ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Delivered

Hashmaps as a storage for reference tables

In TX, a very efficient way to perform a lookup is to use SEARCHUP/SEARCHDOWN, provided the series is properly sorted. However, the first call is very costly as it need to build the B-Tree to be used for later navigations. This creates a threshold...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Delivered

ICC Support of SMTP with SSL/TLS encryption

Most modern SMTP Service require SMTP/s to leverage their services. IBM B2Bi supports this but ICC does not. This makes it hard to find an SMTP service that meets or clients email needs.

Ability for a child item (keyboard) to belong to multiple parent items (Intel PC as well as AMD PC) at the same time

Ability for a child item (keyboard) to belong to multiple parent items (Inter PC as well as AMD PC) at the same time. It is common in the retail world that a product is bundled as combos in multiple permutation and combinations. It means allowing ...
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Some sites still require Implicit SSL due to business pressure

Implicit SSL is generally not a best practice when setting up FTPS. The preferred alternative is Explicit SSL, which is the current standard for FTPS connections for Secure Proxy. However, some of our customers experience intense business pressure...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

Reactivate 824 ACK creation from HIPAA data compliance map

Reactivate 824 ACK creation from HIPAA data compliance map as this is still being used by one of our major clients: 1. Updating the hipaa_data_compliance_parameter.JSON file to include 824 ACK 2. Uncommenting the 824 creation logic from the rules....
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Delivered

Reassigning orders without turning off the fulfillment statuses(ship status/pickup status)

As per current scenario, We need to turn off either one of the status (ship status/pickup status) before doing reassignment of the shipment.There can be business scenarios where we need to reassign the specific shipments without turning off the st...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Delivered